Sir, you’re making me reconsider my faith in your basic English skills. What does one do with a base? One puts things on it. One bases things on it. One bases things on it. Repeat after me: spin off. Base on. Spin off. Base on. See what I (along with hundreds of years of English writers) am getting at, here?

And what the hell is an “appearance of posterity”?

Having said that, I have to concur with Fact 1.

But what the hell is it with Japanese preschoolers with hair down to their knees? Are they born with waist-length hair or something? It must really be horrific to work in a Japanese maternity ward; every delivery would be like that scene out of The Ring, with added amniotic fluids. (I mean the original one, not the Merkin remake, which I’ve never seen.)

This would be even more hilarious if I didn’t know for a fact that Dark_Sage is indeed a native English speaker (of the Merkin variety, like myself), even when drunk.

Anyway, all good Merkins know that Foreign is a language, the one all them foreigners speak. Duh. (In this case, it looks suspiciously like Dutch.)

Plus, if you merely rearrange your second example, it makes perfect sense: “For the knowledge, you’re welcome.” But I agree that “You’re welcome to the [or this] knowledge” is simpler for the easily confused.

Isn’t it “Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai!” not “Papa no Kiki wo Ikuto”? Unless you meant to say “Papa no Kiki wo Ikuto” purposely because it means something else (something I can’t understand since I’ve never heard “kiki” and “ikuto” before except in “Kiki’s Delivery Service”).